dfmt

dfmt is a formatter for D source code

Status

dfmt is beta quality. Make backups of your files or use source control when using the --inplace option.

Installation

Installing with DUB

> dub run dfmt -- -h

Building from source using Make

• Clone the repository
• Run git submodule update --init --recursive in the dfmt directory
• To compile with DMD, run make in the dfmt directory. To compile with LDC, run make ldc instead. The generated binary will be placed in dfmt/bin/.

Building from source using dub

• Clone the repository
• run dub build --build=release, optionally with --compiler=ldc2

Using

By default, dfmt reads its input from stdin and writes to stdout. If a file name is specified on the command line, input will be read from the file instead, and output will be written to stdout.

dfmt uses EditorConfig files for configuration. If you run dfmt on a source file it will look for .editorconfig files that apply to that source file. If no file is specified on the command line, dfmt will look for .editorconfig files that would apply to a D file in the current working directory. Command line options can be used instead of .editorconfig files, or to override options found there.

Options

• --help | -h: Display command line options.
• --inplace | -i: A file name is required and the file will be edited in-place.
• --align_switch_statements: see dfmt_align_switch_statements below
• --brace_style: see dfmt_brace_style below
• --compact_labeled_statements: see dfmt_compact_labeled_statements below
• --end_of_line: see end_of_line below
• --indent_size: see indent_size below
• --indent_style | -t: see indent_style below
• --max_line_length: see max_line_length below
• --outdent_attributes: see dfmt_outdent_attributes below
• --selective_import_space: see dfmt_selective_import_space below
• --single_template_constraint_indent: see dfmt_single_template_constraint_indent below
• --soft_max_line_length: see dfmt_soft_max_line_length below
• --space_after_cast: see dfmt_space_after_cast below
• --space_before_aa_colon: see dfmt_space_before_aa_colon below
• --space_before_function_parameters: see dfmt_space_before_function_parameters below
• --split_operator_at_line_end: see dfmt_split_operator_at_line_end below
• --tab_width: see tab_width below
• --template_constraint_style: see dfmt_template_constraint_style below
• --keep_line_breaks: see dfmt_keep_line_breaks below
• --single_indent: see dfmt_single_indent below
• --reflow_property_chains: see dfmt_property_chains below

Example

dfmt --inplace --space_after_cast=false --max_line_length=80 \
    --soft_max_line_length=70 --brace_style=otbs file.d

Disabling formatting

Formatting can be temporarily disabled by placing the comments // dfmt off and // dfmt on around code that you do not want formatted.

void main(string[] args)
{
    bool optionOne, optionTwo, optionThree;

    // dfmt has no way of knowing that "getopt" is special, so it wraps the
    // argument list normally
    getopt(args, "optionOne", &optionOne, "optionTwo", &optionTwo, "optionThree", &optionThree);

    // dfmt off
    getopt(args,
        "optionOne", &optionOne,
        "optionTwo", &optionTwo,
        "optionThree", &optionThree);
    // dfmt on
}

Configuration

dfmt uses EditorConfig configuration files. dfmt-specific properties are prefixed with dfmt_.

Standard EditorConfig properties

Property Name	Allowed Values	Description
end_of_line	cr, crlf and lf	See EditorConfig documentation. When not set, dfmt adopts the first line ending in the input.
insert_final_newline	true	Not supported. dfmt always inserts a final newline.
charset	UTF-8	Not supported. dfmt only works correctly on UTF-8.
indent_style	tab, space	See EditorConfig documentation.
indent_size	positive integers (4)	See EditorConfig documentation.
tab_width	positive integers (4)	See EditorConfig documentation.
trim_trailing_whitespace	true	Not supported. dfmt does not emit trailing whitespace.
max_line_length	positive integers (120)	See EditorConfig documentation.

dfmt-specific properties

Property Name	Allowed Values	Description
dfmt_brace_style	allman, otbs, stroustrup or knr	See Wikipedia
dfmt_soft_max_line_length	positive integers (80)	The formatting process will usually keep lines below this length, but they may be up to max_line_length columns long.
dfmt_align_switch_statements	true, false	Align labels, cases, and defaults with their enclosing switch.
dfmt_outdent_attributes (Not yet implemented)	true, false	Decrease the indentation level of attributes.
dfmt_split_operator_at_line_end	true, false	Place operators on the end of the previous line when splitting lines.
dfmt_space_after_cast	true, false	Insert space after the closing paren of a cast expression.
dfmt_space_after_keywords (Not yet implemented)	true, false	Insert space after if, while, foreach, etc, and before the (.
dfmt_space_before_function_parameters	true, false	Insert space before the opening paren of a function parameter list.
dfmt_selective_import_space	true, false	Insert space after the module name and before the : for selective imports.
dfmt_compact_labeled_statements	true, false	Place labels on the same line as the labeled switch, for, foreach, or while statement.
dfmt_template_constraint_style	conditional_newline_indent conditional_newline always_newline always_newline_indent	Control the formatting of template constraints.
dfmt_single_template_constraint_indent	true, false	Set if the constraints are indented by a single tab instead of two. Has only an effect if the style set to always_newline_indent or conditional_newline_indent.
dfmt_space_before_aa_colon	true, false	Adds a space after an associative array key before the : like in older dfmt versions.
dfmt_keep_line_breaks	true, false	Keep existing line breaks if these don't violate other formatting rules.
dfmt_single_indent	true, false	Set if the code in parens is indented by a single tab instead of two.
dfmt_reflow_property_chains	true, false	Recalculate the splitting of property chains into multiple lines.

Terminology

• Braces - { and }
• Brackets - [ and ]
• Parenthesis / Parens - ( and )